Recipients of COVID-19 Project Grant Award

May 23, 2020

Today, Alliance of Chinese Americans San Diego (ACA) and Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs San Diego (APAPA) jointly announce the first-round recipients of the COVID-19 grant awards. Within two weeks of Request for Proposal, over ten proposals have been received from local high school API students. After careful evaluation of these proposals for their impact significance, feasibility, as well as innovation and originality, six proposals have been awarded for grant in the first round. We congratulate the recipients for their enthusiasm and dedication to fighting COVID-19 pandemic!

Additional funding is available. Interested students may apply for a grant in second round which ends in late June.

The first round recipients are as follows.

Grantee: Lia Zheng, Clarie Lee, Eecho YuanTitle: Remember20Goal: ​Bring awareness to Asian American discrimination through various mediums of art produced by students who are passionate about the ongoing issue.​Website: https://www.remember20.net/

Grantee: Alexander ChenTitle: Teens Helping Seniors with Grocery ShoppingGoal: ​To bridge the gap between youth and seniors by offering free, no-contact grocery delivery to senior citizens which will allow them to enjoy fresh food. To also protect the health of seniors by delivering masks.

Grantee: Michael ZengTitle: Print For The CureGoal: Develop a "Print For The Cure" web platform aiming to mobilize all makers to combat the critical shortage of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). With this platform, we want to connect makers/donors capable of producing PPE to essential workers/requesters in need. Essential workers can “request” for their needed PPE items directly on-line and individual makers can search for close-by requests, “claim” and deliver directly. ​

Grantee: Spencer ZhangTitle: Create Low-Cost, DIY Face Shields for Healthcare Professionals and BeyondGoal: With an established foundation, I want to expand on the number of face shields produced as we receive more requests from healthcare professionals. Our goal is to donate 10,000 face shields to local facilities affected by COVID-19 by the end of August 2020.

Grantee: Sid Udata, Andrew Gao, Yash GuptaTitle: The Helyx Initiative​Goal: The COVID-19 pandemic is plagued with misinformation and rumors causing fear across the nation. Our goal for this project is to spread truthful information about the virus and how to protect yourself from it regularly. We will put out resources for everyone to view so that people, specifically targeting students, will know the truth.

Grantee: Jason TangTitle: Online Tutoring and Fundraising During the COVID-19 PandemicGoal: We aim to help students with their learning and support hospitals fighting the deadly virus through the COVID-19 crisis. We are offering free tutoring while also encouraging families to make monetary donations, every cent of which will be given to Palomar Health Foundation and Rady’s Children Hospital. Any contribution will assist healthcare heroes and patients in combating COVID-19.